First Sunday of Lent, Year A
2.15 to 17 January, from 3.1 to 13 10.1 to 13 * 1 Cor
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| Botticelli Temptation of Christ |
Jesus is tempted by the devil, just like us. Ergo we are not alone even when we are tempted, Jesus is with us who are tempted, tempted.
Jesus struggles with the devil for us to teach us how to overcome his temptations. Jesus wins because of what "is written " ... not by bread alone (Deut 8:3), not put to the test ... (Deut. 6:16), worship the Lord ... (Deut. 6:13) "and at the end of the fight can be said to Satan," Go! "
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| Durer, Adam and Eve (1504) |
Even the devil, poor man, has tried to use Scripture to Jesus groped when After bringing him to the pinnacle more top of the temple, said: " If you are the Son of God, throw down, it is written, his angels ... (Ps 91.11 to 12).
Many years before that, centuries and millennia ago, the devil had had his first victory, the original, thanks to his proverbial cunning, inventing the candy is poisoned. He repeated the words of God, good and sweet like candy, but altered, making them bitter and deadly as poison.
had met the woman, before then it was called Eve, which had asked if it was true that God had forbidden to eat of every tree of the garden. The devil, poor man, like the prohibition assoluto di mangiare, poiché lui essendo puro spirito non ha mai bisogno di magiare, mentre noi che siamo, per nostra fortuna, anime incarnate viviamo nel bisogno di nutrirci. Donna Eva, presa alla sprovvista, cercò di ricordarsi il racconto che gli aveva fatto poc'anzi il suo Adamo e veloce a parlare come poi tutte le sue figli, corresse il grosso e palese errore commesso astutamente dal diavolo: " Dei frutti degli alberi noi possiamo mangiare " (Gen 3,2). Fin quì tutto bene e allora continuò sicura: " ma del frutto dell'albero che sta in mezzo al giardino Dio ha detto... " e si fermò un attimo dubbiosa, oddio, non ricordo quale dei due alberi, ma oramai devo finire la frase troppo frettolosamente begun, will I ever learn to keep quiet and not speaking to the reptiles, but in fact, it's just a reptile and ended quickly, just as it had begun: "You shall not eat ... and do not you touch " (Gen 3.3). Donna Eva ran so fast even the Eternal Father, only adding to the ban: " not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil " (Gen 2:17), the prohibition of touch, so trendy, so spiritual dirty hands touching the dreary and a bit 'gross material creation!
Spiritualism Devil's ascetic fasting, but it did un'adepta with aggravating. To Eve's eyes, God is the source of the prohibitions, even in the second truth is that only his bag of flour. Donna Eva has thus built the first idol. Thus began the tradition of men both cursed by Jesus (cf. Mt 15.1 s) because it is a fierce competitor to the commandment of God that is only one: "I am the Lord your God" (Dt 6 13), you're my baby.
Adam, how often in history, is the figure of the doll. Unlike loquacissima partner, says nothing and is silent, yet he himself is the only direct witness of God's commandment That would be the time to remember the words that God has told its to him, remember the word and put the two beings who are adulterating God by reducing it to a dumb idol, which increasingly resembles Adam silence. Tace and eats what he knows is forbidden by God that the woman should be silent spoke, while Adam had said nothing about! The silence and the near absence of Adam, meaning the loss of memory of God is silent because Adam does not remember the words of the Lord, the only food that satisfies the hunger of man.
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| English Steps, King David |
If you forget the word of God, Adam and Eve the commandment adultery, Today's Responsorial Psalm opens with the humble hope that King David in Miserere reaches one of the leaders of the religious poetry world. When the prophet Nathan came to him, on behalf of the Lord rebuked him, reminded him of the Word of God and David before the Lord is the opinion of himself, recognizes his sin and without restraint, no fear the Lord confess: " mercy on me, O God, in your love " (Ps 51.3).
The figure of David is the most important. Subjected to temptation, we can fall, as they really happen often, but not the thousands that count falls, as the answer we give to our own and others' failures. Not rinchiudiamoci like Adam and Eve in the sterile game of buck-passing, we take upon ourselves our faults as David and asking for mercy to Him who can forgive us because he has conquered Satan.
no temptation, more than human strength, has surprised you, God is trustworthy and will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but along with the temptation will also provide the way out so that it can support (1 Cor 10:13)
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